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Definition of Mahabharata in English:

Mahabharata

proper noun

One of the two great Sanskrit epics of the Hindus, existing in its present form since c.400 AD. It describes the civil war waged between the five Pandava brothers and their one hundred stepbrothers at Kuruksetra near modern Delhi.

Origin

Sanskrit, literally ‘great Bharata’, i.e. the great epic of the Bharata dynasty.